After meeting
with the
famous Pokemon Trainer Daigo, Satoshi-tachi decide to use the inlet he
pointed out to them to begin his training. As Satoshi and his
pokemon
use the waves of the ocean to train (in order to increase his pokemon's
awareness of their surroundings), a mysterious force purloins the
group's
tent. Assuming the culprit to be a burrowing pokemon, Satoshi and
his friends set out pokemon food to lure it out, but the powerful
pokemon
sends the young trainers blasting off. Next, the group digs a
number
of pitfalls to trap the pokemon, but they are only able to trap
Musashi-tachi.
The Rocket-Dan are quickly blasted off by the mysterious pokemon, who
is
soon revealed to be a Heigani. The crab pokemon proves to be very
powerful, knocking out Pikachu in a short time, but Satoshi doesn't
give
up. He sends his Kimori out to weaken the pokemon, and after a
difficult
battle Heigani is weakened enough for Satoshi to capture. Satoshi
now has his fourth pokemon, and now he's more determined than ever to
win
his rematch with Touki.

ThoughtsThis is a fun
episode.
It's one of the more character-driven episodes in a while, and seeing
the
characters do more mundane tasks, such as the laundry and planning
ahead
for Pokemon Contests, really makes these characters seem more
real.
This group of four trainers really work well off each other, and it's
quite
obvious that the anime producers are trying their hardest not to make
any
of the characters seem unimportant or one-dimensional (you know who you
are, mid-Jouto Takeshi and Kasumi...). I wish the Rocket-Dan were
treated a little nicer seeing as how they got blasted off three
times in this episode, but I guess the anime producers think that kids
find Rocket-Dan abuse to be funny or something.

The dub just has
weird dialogue
oddities, but otherwise it's your standard episode. Corphish's
voice
is alright, and while it's not as great as Heigani's Hei Hei!,
I'm
sure we'll all get used to it in time.

Cut--1
secondA second is cut from
the
very opening scene.

Dialogue
EditAh, we haven't had a
good
ol' fashioned dialogue mix-up in a while:

May: "What
can I do?
I've already done the choreography for the whole thing! And, I
even
based the whole style of it on Steven's battling. My
pokémon's
movements are nice and smooth!"Ash: "You're
right!
Steven's fighting style could totally be used in a Pokémon
Contest!"

So I know you're
wondering...why
the sudden Steven worshipping? How would May base her pokemon's
movements
on a trainer who they've only see command an Aggron to use Hyper
Beam?

Originally,
Haruka says that
she based her pokemon's movements on Touki's (Brawly in the
dub)
fighting style, not Daigo's (Steven). Both May's and Ash's lines
are translated properly except for the name mix-up, so I'm guessing
that
whoever was writing the script that day had a brain fart and just wrote
the wrong name down. Oops.

Side NoteI think 4Kids may
have given
up on trying to come up with new names for the rice balls Takeshi likes
to make:

Brock:
"Well, guys,
our rice balls...are now slush balls."

This is the third
time rice
balls have been identified in this series, and so far the dub has kept
the term "rice balls" in two of those instances (he called them
sandwiches
in "You Never Can Taillow"). So who
knows...maybe
the phrase "rice ball" isn't taboo anymore.

They also used
the word "death"
in this episode, and the words "heck" keeps popping up more often, so
maybe
the dubbers are trying to very gradually make the script a bit more
mature-sounding?

Cut--1
secondA second is cut
after the
Who's That Pokémon? commercial break.

Dialogue
EditI know that when you
were
watching Ash recite his little poem, you thought the image of the two
Sandslash
was just thrown in there at random:

Ash: "What
happened
before/Will happen once more."

The original poem
was Ni-do
aru koto wa Sandopan ("The second time is in the Sandopan" or
something
like that). Satoshi was creating a Pokemon Senryuu (a
comical haiku)
like Ookido-Hakase, so he used a pokemon's name in a punny way to make
an observation. This time, he uses Sandopan's name to make a pun,
and that's why there was a picture of the two Sandopan shown as he says
it.

Cut--2
secondsThe overhead shot of
Forretress
digging the pitfalls to trap Heigani is shortened by two seconds.

Cut--2
secondsTwo seconds are cut
from
the TO BE CONTINUED... screen. *sigh* Remember the days when they
never had to make these kinds of time cuts?